Includes bibliographical references and index

Origins, 1746-1803 -- The family school, 1804-1820 -- Elizabeth, 1821-1824 -- Mary and Elizabeth, 1825-1828 -- Sophia, 1829-1832 -- Somerset Court and La Recompensa -- "Before the age in Salem," 1836-1839 -- 13 West Street, Boston, 1840-1842

"Elizabeth, Mary, and Sophia Peabody were in many ways our American Brontes ... Elizabeth, the oldest sister, was ... [a] powerful influence on the great writers of the era--Emerson, Hawthorne, and Thoreau among them--she also published some of their earliest works ... Mary was a determined and passionate reformer who finally found her soul mate in the great educator Horace Mann. Sophia was a painter who won the admiration of the preeminent society artists of the day. She married Nathaniel Hawthorne ..."--Jacket

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